Fashion fans invited to ‘Take Off Your Clothes’ at Calgary clothing swap

Later this month, Calgarians will have the chance to exchange their unwanted clothing for others’ threads at the city’s sixth Take Off Your Clothes clothing swap. “It’s a bit of a win-win for everybody,” said Vanessa Erickson, co-director for the Calgary chapter and member of The SWAP Team.

Participants can buy a $15 admission ticket for the June 23 event, and can drop off their clothing pieces ahead of time or on the day of. Each article of clothing that is deemed to be in good condition and in style will translate into one ticket for the clothing’s donor to then use to pick out a new item. Remaining clothing is donated to charity.

 “It’s our goal to have 6,000 pieces of clothing,” said Erickson. While the swap is generally mostly women’s clothing, Erickson said there will be a men’s section. Kids’ clothing is not accepted. Take Off Your Clothes will be held at Balmoral School at 220 16 Avenue N.W. from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Elegance for Education fashion show features clothes from Coplon’s

Sisters Ellen Rucker Carter, Ruby Rucker Cooper and Ione Rucker Jamison were the hosts of Elegance for Education, a fabulous fashion show fundraiser for the Rucker Education Scholarship Fund that was held at a private home at the Club at Longview in Weddington. The 200 guests gathered outside by a pool to view an array of designer clothes from Coplon’s at Phillip’s Place.

The showing was organized by store manager Jordan McGee. Proceeds will go to a scholarship at A.R. Rucker Middle School in Lancaster, S.C., that will be given to a student who aspires to be the first person in his or her family to attend college. An insider at the event told me that a crew from the WE channel was there filming the fundraiser for “The Ruckers: Southern Royalty,” a new reality show debuting this fall that follows the lives of the three gorgeous Rucker sisters who are from a successful business family in Lancaster County.

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Fashion writer Suzy Menkes to sell her own clothes online

Suzy Menkes, doyenne of the fashion press, says she plans to auction off part of her own label-strewn wardrobe at a two-week online sale in July. The International Herald Tribune fashion editor, a regular on the front row at catwalk shows of the world's top designers from Giorgio Armani to Diane von Furstenberg, will open bids for 80 lots of clothes on July 11 in the Christie's sale.

 "I have never thrown anything out of my wardrobe since 1964," she said in a statement on Tuesday. Menkes will sell coats, dresses, skirts, tops, jackets and accessories that she has laid in a "tomb of trunks" from designers such as Ossie Clark and Emilio Pucci, to Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Lacroix.

 "They need to live again and this auction provides the opportunity for them to walk out in the sunshine, to dance the night away and to give someone else the joy that they gave to me," she said. Estimates for individual lots start at 200 pounds ($300), with the majority on offer for under 1,000 pounds. The star lot of the sale is an Yves Saint Laurent cocktail jacket from his 1980 collection 'le soleil' estimated at up to 2,000 pounds.

 Menkes follows in the footsteps of British designer Vivienne Westwood, fashion trendsetter Daphne Guinness, English model Erin O'Connor and Italian fashion writer Anna Piaggi by selling much of her collection via a single-owner auction at Christie's. The New York Times Co, which owns the Herald Tribune said earlier this year that it would be rebranding the paper as the International New York Times.

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